SYS-CON Events announced today that Golden Gate University will exhibit at
SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 -
Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Since 1901, non-profit Golden Gate University (GGU) has been helping adults
achieve their professional goals by providing high quality, practice-based
undergraduate and graduate educational programs in law, taxation, business
and related professions. Many of its courses are taught by faculty actively
working in their field of expertise, providing students with skills that can
be applied immediately. The new MS in Business Analytics, like most of its
programs, is available fully online or in-person in downtown SF.
To learn more, visit GGU at www.ggu.edu.
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Reinventing IT Operations with Real-Time Big Data
As businesses adopt functionalities in cloud computing, it's imperative that
IT operations consistently ensure cloud systems work correctly - all of the
time, and to their best capabilities.
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In his session at @BigDataExpo, Bernd Harzog, CEO and founder of
OpsDataStore, presented an industry answer to the common question, "Are you
running IT operations as efficiently and as cost effectively as you need to?"
He then expounded on the industry issues he frequently came up against as an
analyst, and how this led him to found OpsDataStore. He also discussed how
data-driven IT operations will save money, and detect trends and patterns
that precede actual problems by allowing never-before-seen transparency into
the IT stack.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named "Global
Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place
on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,
CA.
The Key to IT Business
Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT
business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000
enterprises and government institutions.
Global 2000
Global 2000 companies have more than US$40 trillion in annual revenue - more
than 50% of the world's entire GDP. The Global 2000 spends a total of US$2.4
trillion annually on enterprise IT. The average Global 2000 company has US$11
billion in annual revenue. The average Global 2000 company spends more than
$600 million annually on enterprise IT.
Governments throughout the world spend another US$500 billion on IT - much of
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Getting Hybrid IT Right
By Charles Araujo, Intellyx Principal Analyst
We define Hybrid IT as a management approach in which organizations create a
workload-centric and value-driven integrated technology stack that may
include legacy infrastructure, web-scale architectures, private cloud
implementations along with public cloud platforms ranging from
Infrastructure-as-a-Service to Software-as-a-Service.
At Intellyx, we have a mantra that goes something like this: "We love
confusion in the market. It gives us something to write about."
Well, if confusion is what we like, Hybrid IT delivers it in spades.
The tech industry is a buzzword-creating machine, but the truth is that all
of these buzzwords serve a purpose. As an industry, we are in a constant
struggle to distill, comprehend and communicate new and complex ideas that
are arising at a dizzying pace. So the industry ... (more)

We get it. If your company isn't up on blockchain, your future is doomed. At
least, that's the general vibe industry leaders are putting out - scrambling
to understand and utilize a framework that is more frequently associated with
cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. In other words, block chain is, generally,
poorly understood. So, should your company stand back and let it mature, or
wade into the fray and hope for the best?
The answer, as it usually does, falls somewhere in the middle.
Recently, a Gartner blog highlighted the mad dash of companies trying to
capitalize on blockchain, and the main takeaway is that companies should
pursue the technology, but be wary of diving into a "pointless" project:
There are multiple causes for disappointing project outcomes, including rapid
rate of technology evolution," said Ray Valdes, vice president and Gartner
Fellow. "However, a ... (more)

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Satellite Storage: The Ultimate Cold Vault for Fintech Security
For financial firms, the cloud is going to increasingly become a crucial part
of dealing with customers over the next five years and beyond, particularly
with the growing use and acceptance of virtual currencies.
There are new data storage paradigms on the horizon that will deliver secure
solutions for storing and moving sensitive financial data around the world
without touching terrestrial networks.
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In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Cliff Beek, President of Cloud
Constellation Corporation, discussed new best practices to bypass the
internet and the many applications for this technology, including the
financial sector, which is notoriously vulnerable to attack.
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IoT in connected Government helps to deliver better citizen services and
provides transparency. It helps in delivering contextual and personalized
service to citizens, enhances the security, and improves the quality of life.
The reference architecture provides guidance for the development of
government systems, solutions and application architecture. A reference
architecture provides a common framework and allows the design to follow the
consistent definitions for the system of interest, its decompositions and
design patterns.
The vision of any Connected Government in the digital era is "To develop
connected and intelligent IoT based systems to contribute to government's
economy, improving citizen satisfaction, safe society, environment
sustainability, city management and global need."
In Connected Government, IoT-based applications provides many benefits, which
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Java Web Services Tutorial: Improve App Communication and Flexibility
By Eugen Paraschiv
Web services have taken the development world by storm, especially in recent
years as they've become more and more widely adopted. There are naturally
many reasons for this, but first, let's understand what exactly a web service
is.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines "web of services" as
"message-based design frequently found on the Web and in enterprise
software". Basically, a web service is a method of sending a message between
two devices through a network.
In practical terms, this translates to an application which outputs
communication in a standardized format for other client applications to
receive and act on.
Web services have been adopted so quickly because they bring several
important advantages:
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If you haven't heard yet, CollabNet just put out some very big news for
managing and gaining value from DevOps.
We introduced CollabNet DevOps Lifecycle Manager (DLM) - a platform designed
exclusively for providing a single pane of glass, dashboard, and traceability
views across your DevOps toolchain and processes from planning to operations
and that can be traced back to planning and development.
CollabNet DLM gives companies a holistic view of the entire software
development lifecycle with continuous feedback-all by leveraging your
existing investment from point-tool vendors.
The CollabNet lab started working on this new product after seeing a gap in
the market and listening to the needs of customers related to the DevOps
toolchain. Due to the number of point solutions available for every part of
the software development lifecycle-tools for plan and build, and all... (more)

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Big Things That Seem Small... Bert Loomis and AI in the Cloud
Bert Loomis was a visionary. This general session will highlight how Bert
Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small
inventions.
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In their general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Harold Hannon, Architect at IBM
Bluemix, and Michael O'Neill, Strategic Business Development at Nvidia, will
discuss the accelerating pace of AI development and how IBM Cloud and NVIDIA
are partnering to bring AI capabilities to "every day," on-demand. They will
also review two "free infrastructure" programs available to startups and
innovators.
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"We're a cybersecurity firm that specializes in engineering security solutions both at the software and hardware level. Security cannot be an after-the-fact afterthought, which is what it's become," stated Richard Blech, Chief Executive Officer at Secure Channels, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

Consumers increasingly expect their electronic "things" to be connected to smart phones, tablets and the Internet. When that thing happens to be a medical device, the risks and benefits of connectivity must be carefully weighed. Once the decision is made that connecting the device is beneficial, medical device manufacturers must design their products to maintain patient safety and prevent compromised personal health information in the face of cybersecurity threats.
In his session at @ThingsExpo...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Grape Up will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct. 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Grape Up is a software company specializing in cloud native application development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS. With five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market across the U.S. and Europe, Grape Up works with a variety of customers from emergi...

Detecting internal user threats in the Big Data eco-system is challenging and cumbersome. Many organizations monitor internal usage of the Big Data eco-system using a set of alerts. This is not a scalable process given the increase in the number of alerts with the accelerating growth in data volume and user base. Organizations are increasingly leveraging machine learning to monitor only those data elements that are sensitive and critical, autonomously establish monitoring policies, and to detect...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Massive Networks will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Massive Networks mission is simple. To help your business operate seamlessly with fast, reliable, and secure internet and network solutions. Improve your customer's experience with outstanding connections to your cloud.

Everything run by electricity will eventually be connected to the Internet. Get ahead of the Internet of Things revolution and join Akvelon expert and IoT industry leader, Sergey Grebnov, in his session at @ThingsExpo, for an educational dive into the world of managing your home, workplace and all the devices they contain with the power of machine-based AI and intelligent Bot services for a completely streamlined experience.

Because IoT devices are deployed in mission-critical environments more than ever before, it’s increasingly imperative they be truly smart. IoT sensors simply stockpiling data isn’t useful. IoT must be artificially and naturally intelligent in order to provide more value
In his session at @ThingsExpo, John Crupi, Vice President and Engineering System Architect at Greenwave Systems, will discuss how IoT artificial intelligence (AI) can be carried out via edge analytics and machine learning techn...

With tough new regulations coming to Europe on data privacy in May 2018, Calligo will explain why in reality the effect is global and transforms how you consider critical data. EU GDPR fundamentally rewrites the rules for cloud, Big Data and IoT. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Adam Ryan, Vice President and General Manager EMEA at Calligo, will examine the regulations and provide insight on how it affects technology, challenges the established rules and will usher in new levels of diligence a...

In the enterprise today, connected IoT devices are everywhere – both inside and outside corporate environments. The need to identify, manage, control and secure a quickly growing web of connections and outside devices is making the already challenging task of security even more important, and onerous. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Rich Boyer, CISO and Chief Architect for Security at NTT i3, discussed new ways of thinking and the approaches needed to address the emerging challenges of security i...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Datera, that offers a radically new data management architecture, has been named "Exhibitor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo ®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Datera is transforming the traditional datacenter model through modern cloud simplicity.
The technology industry is at another major inflection point. The rise of mobile, the Internet of Things, data storage and Big...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Datera will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Datera offers a radically new approach to data management, where innovative software makes data infrastructure invisible, elastic and able to perform at the highest level. It eliminates hardware lock-in and gives IT organizations the choice to source x86 server nodes, with business model option...

With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout classes, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo are two of the most important technology events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo have presented a rock star faculty as well as showcased hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors! In this blog post, I provide 7 tips on how, as part of our world-class faculty, you can deliver one of the most popular sessions at our events. But before reading the...

SYS-CON Events announced today that CA Technologies has been named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. CA Technologies helps customers succeed in a future where every business - from apparel to energy - is being rewritten by software. From planning to development to management to security, CA creates software that fuels transformation for companies in the applic...

Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 21st Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devic...

In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Carl J. Levine, Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1, will objectively discuss how DNS is used to solve Digital Transformation challenges in large SaaS applications, CDNs, AdTech platforms, and other demanding use cases. Carl J. Levine is the Senior Technical Evangelist for NS1. A veteran of the Internet Infrastructure space, he has over a decade of experience with startups, networking protocols and Internet infrastructure, combined with the unique ability to it...

SYS-CON Events announced today that GrapeUp, the leading provider of rapid product development at the speed of business, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place October 31-November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Grape Up is a software company, specialized in cloud native application development and professional services related to Cloud Foundry PaaS. With five expert teams that operate in various sectors of the market acr...

From 2013, NTT Communications has been providing cPaaS service, SkyWay. Its customer’s expectations for leveraging WebRTC technology are not only typical real-time communication use cases such as Web conference, remote education, but also IoT use cases such as remote camera monitoring, smart-glass, and robotic. Because of this, NTT Communications has numerous IoT business use-cases that its customers are developing on top of PaaS. WebRTC will lead IoT businesses to be more innovative and address...

In his opening keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Michael Maximilien, Research Scientist, Architect, and Engineer at IBM, discussed the full potential of the cloud and social data requires artificial intelligence. By mixing Cloud Foundry and the rich set of Watson services, IBM's Bluemix is the best cloud operating system for enterprises today, providing rapid development and deployment of applications that can take advantage of the rich catalog of Watson services to help drive insights from the vast t...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Elastifile will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Elastifile Cloud File System (ECFS) is software-defined data infrastructure designed for seamless and efficient management of dynamic workloads across heterogeneous environments. Elastifile provides the architecture needed to optimize your hybrid cloud environment, by facilitating efficient...

I recently had the opportunity to give a 10-minute keynote at DataWorks Summit 2017. I know what most of you are thinking: Schmarzo can barely introduce himself in 10 minutes! What sort of keynote could he give in just 10 minutes? And to be honest, I too struggled with what to say.
But after some brainstorming with my marketing experts (Jeff Abbott, Erin Banks, and Chris Hill), we came up with an idea: Pose 5 questions that every organization needs to consider as they prepare themselves for digital transformation. And while I didn’t have enough time in 10 minutes to answer those questions...

In preparation for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance, a global 100 financial services organization embarked on a journey to assess its core information processing environments with the objective of identifying opportunities to strengthen its data privacy protection programs. This article focuses on the technology challenges, approach, and lessons learned for the centralized testing environment.

Existing Big Data solutions are mainly focused on the discovery and analysis of data. The solutions are scalable and highly available but tedious when swapping in and swapping out occurs in disarray and thrashing takes place. The resolution for thrashing through machine learning algorithms and support nomenclature is through simple techniques. Organizations that have been collecting large customer data are increasingly seeing the need to use the data for swapping in and out and thrashing occurs in both transaction processing and online analytical processing. Therefore, there is a growing need ...

We all probably remember the movie (“Jurassic Park”), even if we don’t remember this exact scene: Dr. Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum is explaining Chaos Theory to Dr. Ellie Sattler, played by Laura Dern.
Dr. Malcolm is explaining how random, seemingly negligible events can disrupt even the most carefully laid out plans.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [after the T-Rex failed to appear for the tour group]. “You see a Tyrannosaur doesn’t follow a set pattern or park schedules, the essence of chaos.”

Increasingly, in a world of compressed times and distances, humans will be the inventors, designers and managers of digital systems and processes, rather than the operators. Operations will be measured in milliseconds, an inhumane speed where only the machines can deliver.
Professor Paul Virilio, a philosopher of speed, urbanist and cultural theorist, wrote at length about the impact of speed on society. He wrote that speed compresses both time and distance. Where once it took a letter 6 months to get to the other side of the world, an email can now arrive in seconds. Today's near real-tim...

In 2016, artificial intelligence (AI) reached its climax. Research and advisory firm Tractica predicted that the annual worldwide AI revenue will grow from $643.7 million in 2016 to $38.8 billion by 2025. The revenue for enterprise AI applications will increase from $358 million in 2016 to $31.2 billion by 2025, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.3%. Thus, IT and business decision makers must face up to the potentials of AI already today. For each kind of organization this leads to the question, which type of technologies or infrastructure they can leverage to operate an A...

The renowned military strategist John Boyd taught that people and institutions collect favorite philosophies, strategies, theories and ideologies over a period of time, and then try to align the future to fit them. The problem with this is the future is rarely like the past, and trying to fit new data into old paradigms often forces us to perform irrational mental gymnastics, which leaves us farther from the truth.

With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout classes, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo are two of the most important technology events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo have presented a rock star faculty as well as showcased hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors! In this blog post, I provide 7 tips on how, as part of our world-class faculty, you can deliver one of the most popular sessions at our events. But before reading these essential tips, please take a moment and watch this brief video from Sandy Carter.

In the cloud era, you as an IT professional are being forced to adopt new roles and take on new responsibilities you may not feel equipped to handle. Businesses are becoming increasingly hybrid, leaving you to manage, secure, monitor, and remediate technology on-premises and in the cloud. Of course, this comes with risks because it means you must manage mission-critical layers of application services across networks, systems, and services you neither own nor control. In fact, in many cases, you may not even have visibility into all the environments you’re responsible to ensure the performance ...

SYS-CON Events announced today that DXWorldExpo has been named “Global Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Digital Transformation is the key issue driving the global enterprise IT business. Digital Transformation is most prominent among Global 2000 enterprises and government institutions.

Having a well-rounded brand strategy helps you identify the marketing channels you must focus on, and defines every aspect of how your business is viewed by your customers.
Marketing and advertising is an integral component of every business. The US Small Business Administration recommends that businesses with do under $5 million in gross sales and whose net profit margin is in the 10-12% should spend at least 7-8% of their gross revenue in marketing and advertising. In other words, if you are doing $100,000 in annual revenue, you should be spending around $8,000 a year in advertising your b...

I have had the opportunity to work for and around a good many start-ups during the course of my career. Often the start-up founders would simply define a problem, develop a solution and launch a company. The marketing department would then do their very best to identify the individuals in each target company that experienced the problem and had a budget to fix it. This was always a challenging task, that has become even harder today.

Deep learning has been very successful in social sciences and specially areas where there is a lot of data. Trading is another field that can be viewed as social science with a lot of data. With the advent of Deep Learning and Big Data technologies for efficient computation, we are finally able to use the same methods in investment management as we would in face recognition or in making chat-bots. In his session at 20th Cloud Expo, Gaurav Chakravorty, co-founder and Head of Strategy Development at qplum, discussed the transformational impact of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in maki...

From manual human effort the world is slowly paving its way to a new space where most process are getting replaced with tools and systems to improve efficiency and bring down operational costs. Automation is the next big thing and low code platforms are fueling it in a significant way.
The Automation era is here. We are in the fast pace of replacing manual human efforts with machines and processes. In the world of Information Technology too, we are linking disparate systems, softwares and tools to make things self sustaining. This is called Automation.It has been helping companies overcome t...

Cloud computing budgets worldwide are reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and no organization can survive long without some sort of cloud migration strategy. Each month brings new announcements, use cases, and success stories.